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California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations

(www.dmv.ca.gov)
207 points NullHypothesist | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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alooPotato ◴[21 Nov 25 23:46 UTC] No.46010482[source]▶
why is there an approved map? like i get having a pilot somewhere but once that goes well (and we're way past that point), why isn't it just blanket approval everywhere. Why would one county be allowed waymos but not another.

I get that they might not be approved in the high sierras but just make that a deny list not allow list. Or even just deny the specific conditions you're worried about (snow).

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throwaway48476 ◴[21 Nov 25 23:50 UTC] No.46010507[source]▶
I suspect it's limited by what the request was for. Waymo has to create the high res map before they can offer service.
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1. BoorishBears ◴[22 Nov 25 00:12 UTC] No.46010672[source]▶
I think laypeople vastly overestimate how much the maps are a bottleneck compared to boring things like infrastructure to charge, people to clean the vehicles, integrating with local governments to allow things like disabling Pickup/Dropoff in certain areas at certain times, etc.

Even with local partners that all takes a lot of time.